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«If I were asked for a one line answer to the question 'What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.'»
«One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
drawn, draw a line, draw the line, neatly, one line, summing, summing up, Too late, too soon, under it
«Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.»
Author: Ross Perot
| About:
Achievement,
Success
| Keywords:
foot, Just a Game, last-minute, line, minute, one line, quit, The Game, touchdown, winning, yard
«It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.»
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
(Author, Cartoonist)
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at a time, get in, in line, line, one at a time, one line, problems, refuse, taking
«Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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adopt, begun, capital, concentrate, engaged, exclusively, have the best, Here is, improvement, lead-in, line of business, machinery, one line, on that, prime
«Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Joy,
Risk-taking
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adding, boundary, boundary line, conquering, difficulty, give back, Give Me Liberty, line, one line, pushing, push back
«Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.»
«One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.»
«Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
absolute, absolutes, absolute magnitude, actual, certainly, circle, come into, exactly, existence, have-not, in a circle, known, line, one line, straight, straight line, There was, The Beginning
«Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
attempt, clarified, clarifies, clarifying, convinced, copy, copying, definitive, drawing, draw a line, draw the line, five, in fact, line, one line, purest, stripped-down, stripped, ten, The Last
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